Annan was slightly startled when he saw the last side mission.
What does this refer to?
Is it me in the nightmare...or is it Evelyn Miller?
"But speaking of this name..."
This is not the first time Evelyn Mille Annan has heard this name.
This name is included in the code that Benjamin uses to determine whether he is in a nightmare... and it's in the first verse.
Excluding the possibility of having the same name for the time being, Benjamin is very likely to know this Evelyn. Even when he was relatively young, he was deeply impressed by this name...
"...In other words, is it possible that this place was in the past decades ago?"
Annan fell into deep thought.
So, in the original history...what did Evelyn Miller do and what did she do?
He touched his left wrist and used the extremely dim light to explore his left hand, testing the shape and depth of the wound.
After the weakening of Annan's curse, he could no longer detect such slight pain. But Annan could distinguish the distribution location of his wounds through the difference in touch... After all, the blood was already flowing down his left arm, and Annan could only use
Visually, I cannot determine the exact location of my wound.
Soon, Annan noticed something.
"This wound..."
Annan's eyes lit up slightly.
First of all, he could be sure that this was definitely not a scratch caused by friction on the rough handcuffs when struggling hard.
This was obviously a cut injury caused by cutting the back of the hand with some kind of sharp instrument.
Judging from the depth of this wound...
Annan reached out and fumbled for the handcuffs.
Sure enough, on the side of the handcuffs close to the wall, there was a thin blade close to it. It felt a bit like a shaving blade... very thin and a bit soft.
……No wonder.
Annan felt from the beginning that the size of the handcuffs was obviously too big for her, and it was impossible to cuff Evelin here with her slender wrists. If she struggled hard, she should be able to get her hands out of here.
extracted.
And the current discovery tells Annan why he was half-kneeling on the ground when he entered the dungeon. Because only in this way can the side with the blade be far enough away from his skin... If he stood up at this time, his wrist would be damaged.
cuts.
Annan groped calmly.
He put his clothes against the blade and moved it, and found that it would retract as soon as he pressed it.
So Annan immediately realized that this blade should be part of a certain mechanism.
"...where is the other end of it?"
Annan thought for a moment, then held the handcuffs with his right hand, keeping the blade away from the back of his hand, and slowly stood up from the ground.
Annan felt some numbness in his legs and feet, but he ignored it.
He just followed the chain and groped toward the wall.
When he touched the fixed point of the link on the wall, Annan twisted it and found that it was actually movable!
Annan's eyes suddenly lit up.
This is it!
He stretched out his hand to hold the fixed point and turned it left and right a few times. Annan immediately discovered that if he turned it counterclockwise, the blade would protrude more; if he turned it clockwise, the blade would retract more.
This doesn't look like a device for imprisoning people... but more like some kind of torture device.
Annan kept the palm of his left hand upward and used gravity to place the blade downward. Then he turned the fixed point to the left in circles.
When Annan turned it to the head, the blade had been completely retracted.
Annan did not hesitate to break the thumb of his left hand until it was dislocated, and then took his left hand out.
Then he did not leave, but rotated the fixed point in the opposite direction because Annan sensed that the first requirement in the side mission "keep the body intact" may refer to this.
as expected.
After Annan rotated it to the right for a while, the blade came out again... and after a while, the fixed point began to become a little unstable. It was like a screw that was about to be unscrewed.
Annan continued to rotate it and found that when the blade was halfway out, the fixed point fell off with a clang, and fell to the ground with the chain with the sharp blade at the end.
The handcuffs were still fixed on Annan's hands.
It seemed like it needed a key to open...but that didn't matter anymore.
The chains have fallen off, it's just a heavy bracelet.
"...In other words, if I can't get it out violently, do I need to let it cut into the skin of my wrist by nearly one centimeter to remove it?"
Annan frowned slightly.
It always feels like this is not a prison...
Just in case, Annan picked up the heavy chains on the ground.
Annan used Evelin's intact right hand to hold the original fixed point, and the other end of the iron chain was a sharp and slender blade.
Maybe it could be used as a weapon of some sort...
After all, Annan has already checked her body... Evelin has no silverware on her body, and she is not a swordsman or a wizard. Annan cannot use her own skills.
However, if the enemy is just ordinary people...it is still no problem to kill one or two people with this heavy iron chain.
After getting the weapon, Annan first reset his left thumb. The contusion caused by the rough technique made it temporarily unable to hold a fist tightly. But it didn't matter, after all, there was still an injury on the left wrist, and he couldn't use force originally.
"...Is Evelin left-handed?"
Such thoughts appeared in Annan's mind, but they were quickly dismissed.
He dragged the chain around the room, but found nothing.
So he could only drag the chain closer to the door.
It was not a solid metal cell door like in a prison but an ordinary wooden door.
Of course, the door is locked.
But this does not trouble Annan.
He raised the chain and slammed it on the door lock!
Once, twice...
When Annan hit it for the sixth time, he finally broke the door lock!
Annan kicked open the wooden door without politeness and walked out.
What appeared in front of him was a corridor leading to the left and right sides.
It was still very dark outside and there were no lights in the corridor.
Not to mention the green light, Annan couldn't even find a candle.
"Huh?"
A strange exclamation came.
...a girl?
Annan suddenly turned his head in the direction of the sound, his eyes sharp.
It was a dark place behind the corner not far to my left.
As if because she heard the sound of the chain being dragged, the girl who made the sound suddenly ran away away from Annan without saying a word.
Annan just squinted his eyes slightly and looked in that direction silently.
If Annan's actions were followed, he should immediately catch up with her at this time, knock her unconscious with a chain, and then drag her back for torture.
But at this time, Annan remembered his second side task: don't talk to anyone.
Therefore, he did not catch up, but just allowed the footsteps to gradually move away from him.
"Running pretty fast..."
Annan murmured.
...Since, I can't talk to anyone.
Then his safest way of action is to move in a direction where no one is around.
So Annan turned to the right without thinking.
This time he did not drag the chain, but held it from the middle with his left hand that had regained some strength. It was like a cowboy preparing to hitch a horse...
But just after Annan picked up the chain, he touched the chain and suddenly realized something.
He paused and squatted down.
Carefully groping on the ground with your right hand.
There are water stains.
There were also water stains behind Annan. This was because Evelin's trousers and shoes were soaked. But strangely, there was no water source in the dungeon that was enough to wet her to her knees...
But this water stain came from in front of Annan.
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked back.
This should be left by the person who just spoke.
In other words...she comes from the same place as me before?
And she should have walked from right to left
Just follow the direction of the water damage and you can find the next clue!